The intent of this chapter is to protect the public health, safety and general welfare of the community and its people through the establishment of minimum regulations governing development and use. This chapter shall divide the city into use districts and establish regulations in regard to location, erection, construction, reconstruction, alteration and use of structures and land. The regulations are established to protect the use areas; to promote orderly development and redevelopment; to provide adequate light, air and convenience of access to property; to prevent congestion in the public right-of-way; to prevent overcrowding of land and undue concentration of structures by regulating land, buildings, yards and density of population; to provide for compatibility of different land uses; to provide for administration of this chapter; to provide for amendments; to prescribe penalties for violation of such regulations; and to define powers and duties of the city staff, the Board of Adjustment and Appeals, the Planning and Zoning Commission and the City Council in relation to the Zoning Code.
(Prior Code, § 1101.03)